[no_wizard]

>The amount of typing it takes to describe a solution in English text is often less than the amount of typing needed to actually implement it in code

I don't find this to be true. I find describing a solution in English well to be slower than describing the problem in code (IE, by writing tests first) and having that be the structured data that the LLM uses to generate code.

Its far faster, from the results I'm seeing plus my own personal experience, to write clear tests which benefit from being a form of structured data that the LLM can analyze. Its the guidance we have given to our engineers at my day job and it has made working with these tools dramatically easier.

In some cases, I have found LLM performance to be subpar enough that it is indeed, faster to write it myself. If it has to hold many different pieces of information together, it starts to falter.